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Psychometric deviance measured by MMPI in adoptees at high risk for schizophrenia and their adoptive controls.
Journal of personality assessment - 1 Aug 2004
Siira Virva, Wahlberg Karl-Erik, Miettunen Jouko, Lasky Kristian, Pekka Tienari Pekka Tienari
Abstract excerpt
Psychometric deviance in personality traits as assessed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Dahlstrom, Welsh, & Dahlstrom, 1982) was compared between adopted-away, high-risk (HR) offspring of schizophrenic biologic mothers and low-risk (LR) controls. A subsample of the Finnish Adoptive Family Study (Tienari et al., 2000) included 60 HR adoptees and 76 LR control adoptees who were tested by...
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